OCP2025 patch as worn by aircrew supporting Operation Christmas Drop 2025 at Andersen Air Force Base. [USAF photo by SSgt. Tristan Truesdell] #OCP25 #patch #ChristmasDrop

Archive photo of FAB C-130E #2456 was seen at Heathrow Airport, c1970 date unknown. [Photographer unknown] #C-130E #Brazil #Heathrow

A USAF C-130J-30 #08-8607 prepares to taxi prior to a Weapons School mission at Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado, on October. 3, 2025. [USAF photo by A1C Jennifer Nesbitt] #C-130J #29WPS #airlift #Colorado

On November 24th Marshall Group welcomed Fat Albert back to Cambridge for the first time since entering service in 2020. For more than a year the hangars will be home to the world's most recognisable C-130, which will undergo a centre wing box change. #C-130J #FatAlbert #USMC #MarshallGroup

40 year old picture shows a ceremony held on November 25, 1985 where Marshall Group handed over XV299 the last of 30 extended-fuselage C-130K aircraft to the RAF. #MarshallGroup #RAF #C-130K

USAF C-130J-30s from 37 AS perform an elephant walk before a maximum generation flt at Ramstein AB, on October 15, 2025. [USAF photo by Maj Derek Brockmann] #C-130J-30 #Ramstein #MaxGen #elephantwalk

First C-130K retires for Austria. #C-130K #Austria #Retire #lastflight

#RAAF #C-130J #FlyingHours #37Sqn

A different perspective and angle of a C-130 in action. #C-130

A USAF C-130H3 Hercules aircraft, assigned to the 700th AS, Dobbins ARB, Georgia, with a tail insignia known as the “The Big Square A” flies away from Mount Fuji, Japan after airdrop operations, July 28, 2025. [USAF photo by TSgt. James K. Thomas] #C-130H3 #Dobbins #ANG #Japan #MountFuji

USAF C-130J assigned to the 86th AW, out of Ramstein AB, flies a sortie mission during exercise Hussar Saber near 33rd Air Base, Poland, on September 17, 2025. [USAF photo by SrA Trevor Calvert] #C-130J #C-130H #exercise #USAF

#139thAW #180thAS #ANG #C-130H3 #transfer

A couple of photos of the former Falkland’s based C-130 C.1K from 1312 Flt inflight with a Tornado F3 from 1435 Flt taken from a VC-10. (Photo by David Westbury) #Falkland #1312Flt #1435Flt #RAF #C-130

USAF C-130J #16-5838 assigned to the 36th AS sits on the flightline during exercise Beverly Morning 26-1 at Yokota AB, Japan, Oct. 19, 2025. [USAF photo by SSgt. Manuel G. Zamora] #C-130J #Yokota #sunrise #Japan

Aircrew from the 169th AS, Illinois ANG, plan, execute and conduct a C-130H Hercules multi-ship legacy and final flight for 13 Airmen at the 182nd AW, Peoria, Illinois, on Nov. 1, 2025. [ANG photo by MSgt. Scott Thompson] #C-130H #finiflight #169thAS

USAF C-130H #91-1231 lands at the Kentucky ANGB in Louisville, on Sept. 22, 2025, ending the 33-year-old transport’s final flight. It will be placed on static display at its original Kentucky home, complete with restored livery and its unique Man o’ War markings. #C-130H #retired #Kentucky

#USAF #C-130 #aerial-demo #Horsemen #aerobatics #airlift

#C-130E #Turkish #mishap #crash

#C-130J #USN #USMC #FATALBERT

#RAAF #C-130J #Flyinghours

A couple of new C-130 patches. Top RNZAF retirement patch for the H-model and bottom Austrian C-130K patch #RNZAF #Austria #C-130H #C-130K #patches

Archive photo of RAF C.1 #XV194 from 36 Sqn,which was seen circa 1969. This airframe was w/o after veering off the runway at Tromso in 1972. #RAF #C-130K

📰 Marshall Aerospace are proud to announce a major contract to support the Turkish Ministry of Defence's fleet of newly-acquired Lockheed Martin C-130Js (Former RAF airframes). #MarshallAerospace #Turkey #RAF #C-130J

Former RNZAF C-130H #NZ7003 (now #N4054) flown to Thermal, California to join the Coulson Aviation fleet as a future fire bomber on October 10, 2025. #C-130H #Coulson #RNZAF

RNLAF C-130 Falcon Leap 2025 - 81st anniversary of Op Market Garden patches. Anyone have these? #C-130 #patches

M551 Sheridan Low Altitude Parachute Extraction System (LAPES) #C-130 #airdrop

Complete set of patches from worn and offered by the Pakistani C-130 crew which attended RIAT25 #Pakistan #RIAT #patches #C-130H

Archive photo of USN LC-130F #159129 from VXE-6 'JD' was seen at NAS Point Mugu. Date unknown. [Photographer unknown] #USN #LC-130F #PointMugu

Archive photo of Philippines AF, C-130H #RP100 was seen at Abu Dhabi, circa Feb 1975. [Photographer unknown] - Anyone have more details on this one?? #C-130H #Philippines

C-130J-30 | USAF | Montrose Regional Airport, CO KMTJ | September 2025 | devoid of all markings and assumed to be 05-3145

USAF EC-130J #96-8154 flies over the Gulf of Mexico, on September 16, 2025. The aircraft, assigned to the 417th FLTS at Eglin AB. [USAF photo by SSgt. Thomas Barley] #EC-130J #417thFLTS #Eglin

⚡️A 🇩🇪German Air Force C-130 transport aircraft was fired at: In an incident last week at the Celle airbase in Lower Saxony, shortly after takeoff on Friday around noon, unidentified individuals fired fireworks in the direction of the aircraft. Plane wasn’t hit, pilots alerted air traffic control.

What is better than a kitten? and angry kitten! Special thanks toJoseph and the rest of the crew at TWZ for using my shots. Great article below on this interesting emerging technology #ALQ167 #AngryKitten #TWZ

Archive photo of USAF C-130A #56-0531 from 522nd AD was seen at RAF Gaydon on September 15, 1961. [Photographer unknown]

3rd Class Tejada Rodriguez, a corpsman with 3rd Littoral Combat Team, displays a JASDF 401 Sqn patch during Resolute Dragon 25 at Naha Air Base, Okinawa, Japan, Sept. 19, 2025. [USMC photo by Cpl. Evelyn Doherty] #JASDF #C-130H #patch

Members of the 815th AS, Flying Jennies, conduct low level training flights through the Tennessee Smoky Mountains in a C-130J Super Hercules during June 2023. [USAF photo by Capt. Matthew Beckum] #815thAS #C-130J

Today in History: On the night of Sept 21, 1965, Pakistan executed one of its most daring and unconventional missions of the Indo-Pak War; a night bombing strike using C-130s. Targeting the Indian artillery emplacements threatening Pakistani positions along the Bambawali-Ravi-Bedian Canal. #PAF

USN KC-130T #162311 assigned VX-30, takes off from NAS Point Mugu, California, on September 10, 2025. [USN photo by MCS2 John T. Jarrett] #KC-130T #USN

Ever wondered how the Fulton Recovery Gear works. Instructions of use: #C-130 #recovery

Airmen with the 193rd SOW, Pennsylvania National Guard fly MC-130J Commandos II during a formation flight from Harrisburg International Airport at Middletown, Pennsylvania, Sept. 11, 2025. [ANG photo by Sgt. Kayden Bedwell] #MC-130J #193rdSOW #PANG #Pennsylvania #ANG

A Blue Tigers flight crew assigned to the 757th AS flies an aerial spray-modified C-130H Hercules aircraft at 300 feet using night vision goggles, Sept. 9, 2025, in the marsh areas of the Naval Weapons Station, Joint Base Charleston. [USAF photo by TSgt. Noah J. Tancer] #C-130H #757thAS

USAF HC-130J Combat King II #10-5716 from 79 RQS performs air-to-air refuelling for two HH-60W Jolly Green II helicopters from the 563rd RG during exercise Resolute Force Pacific in Saipan, on July 20, 2025. [USAF photo by SrA Andrew Garavito] #HC-130J #79RQS

USN KC-130T-30 from VR-64 arrives at Munich Airport on September 6th, 2025 with Condors tail art. [Photo by European Aviation Team] #USN #KC-130T #VR-64 #Tailart

Archive photo of USCG HC-130B #1341 was seen at Oakland, circa Oct 1973. [Photographer unknown] #USCG #HC-130B #SanFrancisco

E-130J popular name announced for TACAMO mission aircraft :- www.c-130.net/c-130-news-a... #E-130J #NorthropGrumman #LockheedMartin #NAVAIR #TACAMO

The first E-130J Phoenix II airframe has emerged from the line at the Lockheed Martins Marietta facility on September 4, 2025. [Image via NAVAIR] #E-130J #LockheedMartin #NAVAIR #TACAMO

Ten South Korean military personnel are being disciplined for their roles in an unapproved C-130 Hercules flight over Japanese airspace that caused Tokyo to scramble fighter jets. www.stripes.com/theaters/asi...

An AC-130H/U Gunship aircraft from the 4th SOS jettisons flares over an area near Hurlburt Field, on Aug. 20, 2008. [USAF photo by SrA Julianne Showalter] #AC-130U #gunship #SpecOps #Hulburt

Indonesia sent out another C-130J-30 Super Hercules (A-1343) following the decision to extend airdrop mission over Gaza (26/8). This third Hercules carries 26 personnel, 1,200 parachutes, and is expected to arrive in Jordan on August 28 📸 Indonesian MoD & #TNIAU

Chile avança na modernização dos C-130 Hércules para manter frota ativa até 2043 A Força Aérea Chilena (FACh) está promovendo uma modernização profunda em sua frota de aviões de transporte tático C-130 Hércules, garantindo que essas aeronaves continuem operando com eficiência e tecnologia de ponta…